PARAMORE PRODUCER GIVES HAND TO YOUR VEGAS

Your Vegas has recruited the producer for Paramore and Breaking Benjamin to shape their sound for their forthcoming record.

Your Vegas is one of Universal Records up and coming bands, and they’re expecting big things from the New York-Leeds, U.K. act. The band has a U.K. flavor, but they balance it U.S. indie style with the production for their debut album A Town And Two Cities. Your Vegas worked with David Bendeth, who shaped the sounds for Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Paramore.

Vocalist Coyle Girelli and guitarist Mat Steel talked about working with the famous producer.

[Steel] “He kind of brought, he brought the bigger American rock sound. Dave, he brought a bigger sound, bigger…more bottom end I think he brought to our music. Like, if you hear the demos before the album there’s more…” [Girelli] “There’s more English sounding (songs o the demos). He definitely helped mix it up so we had more of a balance. We were very conscious that we were going to be going out in America first, and we were going to be competing with American sounding bands, and we couldn’t go out sounding completely British. We needed his ear and his expertise in his area to help us out.” [Steel] “We didn’t hear Breaking Benjamin and Red Jumpsuit and Paramore and think, ‘That’s what we want the album to sound like.’ But we thought, ‘a bit of that mixed with what we do would be a really good thing,’ and it really worked.”

Girelli talked about letting go his visions of how his songs should go.

“I found that quite hard. I think there’s sort of as a songwriter you have a vision when you write a song. The songs are very much like children when you finish them. I think it was hard…. Because we had never really worked with someone who came in and was like, ‘I think it should (go like this).’ That’s a good couple of weeks to get my head around that someone else was going to be…had a different vision towards something within the song. As far as the overall sound goes, just changing the American to the English, especially in the rhythm section, the bottom end. It took a while to get our heads around because we were brought up in England listening to English music so it was… So, yeah, it’s… It’s settled. I took the pills and chilled out, and I was fine.”

Your Vegas is back on the road with The Bravery starting Thursday March 20 in Tucson, Arizona after a visit to music industry convention South By Southwest. The album A Town And Two Cities comes out April 22, but fans can get the 3 song EP at their favorite online eTailers.